the fediverse blocking off people who want to join it seems odd. Like, we want the fediverse to be a thing so that everything can talk to everything else and the content itself can be king without having to worry too much about where that content lives.

Not me. I wanted something free from multibillion dollar corporations. And people aren't blocked off. They don't even need an account to view content or an app. And they aren't blocked from creating a non meta affiliated account if they want to participate.

If we want content to be king we should block huge, malicious corporations that have made billions of dollars by manipulating content.

Facebook already had a walled garden with Instagram. They didn't need to use ActivityPub. If the weight of their usercount was enough to make everyone to switch to it, people would have switched to it. And yet,the fediverse is thriving outside of their influence for a reason. Facebook is not opening up their walled garden for no reason...

Everyone is suddenly so anti corporate, even though big corporations had a big part in what the internet is today.

Big corporations also had a big part as to why piracy exists, so pirates on a piracy-focused instance being anti-corporate is not sudden at all.

I think you're lost, pal.

Staying federated is the smarter decision, as users will stay on smaller instances, since they have a big pool of content from other instances, including corporate instances like threads or similar.

Speak for yourself. I don't want any content curated by that cancer of a company.

If we wanted to be a part of Facebook we'd be there. And since we're not there we don't want Facebook to be here. This is why many instances don't want to be associated with them. Also no, corporations didn't have part in the making of internet. They had a part in profiteering of our data and the internet. Being anti-corporate is only a sensible decision one can make in today's world.

Lmao, what a bootlicker

Everyone is ~~suddenly~~ so anti corporate, BECAUSE big corporations had a big part in what the internet is today.

I’d bet Threads was never supposed to be federated.

Except they already publicly announced that Threads is going to support ActivityPub and federate with the larger fediverse.

They just made use of a pre-existing software

Not in the way you think, I believe. It's not like they used Mastodon as a basis - they can't, at least not without also making their own software open source, which is never gonna happen. No, the software they're using is proprietary and built by them. What they are "reusing" is the ActivityPub protocol, but it's not like that was a cost-saving measure. Without the goal to federate, it would make no sense at all to use ActivityPub.

Yup, big corporations had a big part and a big part of the internet is shit. So, thanks.

have you watched how embrace extend exterminate works?

You're making the mistaken assumption that everyone wants lemmy to "win" social or something.

I don't want that at all. I want meta users to stay at meta. I don't want lemmy posts to be manipulated by meta users.

You sound like someone who no one wants here, why not just move to threads full time?